
Fukushima in Numbers
The Fukushima disaster in numbers
The Fukushima disaster in numbers
Adam Duckett on Fukushima and the future of nuclear
Adam Duckett on searching for the positive news
ON 13 January, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how simulation software can be u...
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to...
Adam Duckett on the changes being forced upon us by Covid-19.
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
ON 28 October, The Chemical Engineer is hosting a webinar to discuss the digital transformation o...
Adam Duckett on the opportunity to boost your skills
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capab...
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is a...
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Adam Duckett on the need to engage with equality, diversity and inclusion
Jane Cutler, IChemE’s newly-elected Deputy President, talks to Adam Duckett
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Adam Duckett on IChemE’s green commitments
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up wit...
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
Opportunities from crisis
Withthe UK Government having announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare th...
Adam Duckett on engineering coming to the fore
We asked our reader feedback panel to tell us how they have been impacted by the coronavirus pand...
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Adam Duckett on providing an environment for engineers to speak up and thrive
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
Adam Duckett says Australia's bushfires should be a wake-up call for change
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
IChemE President Stephen Richardson talks to Adam Duckett about his ambitions for IChemE
Adam Duckett discusses innovation in the food and drinks sector and an issue focussed on efficiency
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Adam Duckett on the tug of war between R & D
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Adam Duckett on the Apollo 11 anniversary and human ingenuity
ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experime...
ON 18 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how chemicals major BASF has use...
Adam Duckett says Government must stand strong with British Steel
Congress Chair Nigel Hirst discusses the group's enthusiastic start and its immediate priorities
Adam Duckett urges action on CCS
Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top ...
Adam Duckett introduces the Clean Energy SIG's series on hydrogen
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
Adam Duckett on responding to calls for a new biodegradable wrapper
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
Adam Duckett calls for schools outreach to continue apace into 2019
Adam Duckett on the need for strong government intervention
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
Adam Duckett introduces the promise of 3D printed reactors
Adam Duckett asks how engaged you want to be
Adam Duckett says we must do all we can to share the lessons of Piper Alpha
Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series laun...
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
Adam Duckett, on life-changing moments, regrets, and the red thread of safety
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
Adam Duckett discusses siloed operations
PERRY’S – the handbook known within the discipline as the bible of chemical engineering – will be...
Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top ...
Adam Duckett discusses breaking the vaccine cold chain
Adam Duckett says it is time to get nimble and experiment
Ahead of our coming webinar on 24 November, JMP's Malcolm Moore introduces why engineers should p...
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
Ahead of our coming webinar on developing a culture of analytic excellence, Adam Duckett catches ...
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
Astronaut Donald Pettit talks to Adam Duckett about his life and work
Adam Duckett asks how we can square the circle of our impacts
Adam Duckett discusses the breadth of chemical engineering
Adam Duckett on Trump’s move to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board
Evonik's chief digital officer discusses his expectations for digitalisation at the specialty che...
Adam Duckett on Elon Musk and the bet he can solve an energy crisis
A look at how a wastewater treatment plant in Denmark has become energy self-sufficient
Adam Duckett asks whether or not your company has a digitalisation strategy
Adam Duckett discusses Trump and the climate
Adam Duckett looks forward to 2017
Adam Duckett discusses his shock at the chemical accidents figures coming out of China
Adam Duckett asks how we can help students get the best start to their careers
Adam Duckett on ushering in a new era
Adam Duckett on making progress
Successes, regrets - and the damage being done to our children's futures
Adam Duckett says share your successes
Adam Duckett on boosting inclusion
Adam Duckett welcomes disruptive technologies
Adam Duckett discusses the underplayed threat of hacking
Adam Duckett welcomes you to the new-look magazine
SUSTAINABILITY guidance for engineering professionals has been issued by the Engineering Council,...
GSK is closing two UK antibiotics manufacturing operations, in Barnard Castle and Ulverston.
EXXONMOBIL is closing its Altona refinery in Victoria, Australia. The decision comes hot on the h...
TECH billionaire Elon Musk is launching a US$100m prize for innovators who can remove CO2 from th...
THE UK Government is offering £40m (US$56m) in funding for energy-intensive companies to conduct ...
ICHEME has published a new book showcasing the works of process safety pioneer Trevor Kletz.
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
FIVE engineers who helped develop LED lighting have won the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engine...
Businesses and industry groups warn of costly administrative burdens and the impacts on supply ch...
RIO TINTO has reversed its plans to close its New Zealand aluminium smelter this August, agreeing...
SMALL modular nuclear reactors (SMR) could be twinned with wind power, in a project that has been...
SHELL has resumed production of LNG from its huge floating processing plant – Prelude – following...
SHELL is taking a 40% stake in a Canadian plant that will use Enerkem’s processing technology to ...
A STOCKPILE of Ebola vaccine has been established by humanitarian organisations to help better pr...
SOLVAY has sold its amphoteric surfactant manufacturing business, including production plants in ...
CUREVAC has agreed to work with Bayer to accelerate the development and supply of its Covid-19 va...
BASF has completed the first phase of its push to double production of MDI at its integrated chem...
STEVE Bagshaw, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List for his se...
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
AUSTRALIA’S Government has agreed to provide A$76.8m (US$59.5m) in funding in a bid to secure the...
ASTRAZENECA has agreed to buy US biotech firm Alexion for US$39bn in a move that will expand its ...
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
FOLLOWING three highly-encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials, the light at the end of the tunnel su...
FOUR people have died and another has been injured in an explosion at a UK water treatment works.
EXXONMOBIL has abandoned plans to sell its 50% stake in Bass Strait gas fields off Victoria, Aust...
PETRONAS has said it aspires to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, becoming the latest oil and g...
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
SUEZ will explore developing a modular system to capture carbon dioxide from energy-to-waste plan...
ICHEME has published its position statement on climate change, committing to collaborate in the g...
SHELL has said its huge floating LNG production plant – the Prelude FLNG facility – is not expect...
COGENERATION of heat by new nuclear plants could help balance intermittent renewables and provide...
PETRONAS won four of eight awards at IChemE’s Malaysia Awards ceremony, which was held virtually ...
ICHEME is updating its Code of Professional Conduct and Disciplinary Regulations, with the change...
CLEAN Power Hydrogen (CPH2) has formed a joint venture to manufacture its membrane-free electroly...
SERIOUS consideration should be given to decontaminating and reusing PPE to alleviate shortages a...
EVONIK and Siemens have commissioned a pilot plant that uses microorganisms to convert water and ...
SASOL has sold half its stake in its Lake Charles petrochemicals complex in the US to LyondellBas...
CHRYSAOR has agreed a merger with Premier Oil to create the largest independent oil and gas compa...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,600 jobs in Europe as the oil industry struggles with...
DOW has announced it will close manufacturing sites in Europe and North America as it seeks to cu...
BP and Microsoft are working together to advance their net zero ambitions and the digital transfo...
THREE ICHEME Fellows – Yulong Ding, David Edwards and Omar Matar – have been elected as Fellows o...
LYONDELLBASELL has started operation of a new pilot plant for a pyrolysis process that it is deve...
ROBERT “Bob” Gore, chemical engineer and renowned inventor of Gore-Tex has died at the age of 83.
PALE Blue Dot has signed an agreement with Carbon Engineering to work together on deploying direc...
THE UK Government has launched a review into how it will license the offshore oil and gas industr...
THE UK’s Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre has expanded its partners to include PSE, Siem...
ICHEME is calling on the chemical engineering community to make nominations for its annual medals...
BASF will release data on the carbon footprints of its entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 p...
AIR LIQUIDE is buying the world’s largest oxygen production site – from Sasol in South Africa – a...
SABIC’S polycarbonate facility in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scal...
SCIENTISTS have taken a step forward in breaking the so-called vaccine “cold chain” by creating a...
ICHEME has launched a draft climate change position statement for members to comment on.
AUSTRALIA’S New South Wales government has backed Santos’ A$3.6bn (US$2.54bn) Narrabri gas develo...
GLENCORE is a step closer to having a new A$1.5bn (US$1.05bn) open-cut coal mine approved by Aust...
DOW has set a target to be carbon neutral by 2050 and that all the packaging its chemicals produc...
ICHEME has compiled a list of manufacturing sites in the UK and Ireland that have the potential c...
BASF has been using its supercomputer to help identify molecules that might help in the fight aga...
BP is selling its petrochemicals business, including interests in 14 production sites, to Ineos f...
THREE partners have joined forces in Canada to demonstrate a 15 MW small modular reactor that wou...
HERIOT-WATT University has had its chemical engineering programmes at its campuses in Dubai and M...
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
SIEMENS has formed a partnership with process plant designer Exyte to quickly deliver turnkey bio...
ICHEME has published a collection of journal articles to showcase research published by chemical ...
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has published a rapid review of engineering control...
JANE Cutler has been elected to take up the position of IChemE Deputy President from June.
ICHEME is calling on members and their employers to donate any unused PPE they can spare to a vol...
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to ...
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net...
THE Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is investing US$338m to develop and ma...
ICHEME members are working with representatives of the wider engineering discipline to advise the...
VATTENFALL will design a heat network to supply more than 10,000 homes in London, using heat capt...
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power s...
LG CHEM is more than tripling its production of carbon nanotubes for the burgeoning electric vehi...
ASTRAZENECA says it could begin production of a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of the year after...
Obituary of John Solbett, former IChemE President
ICHEME’S volunteer Covid-19 Response Team has divided into distinct workstreams, including on dia...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris, former CEO of Dow Chemical, has joined a commission established...
THADDEUS Anim-Somuah has been recognised by media outlet Forbes as one of its 30 people under the...
WOODSIDE has joined a consortium to study exporting hydrogen as ammonia from Australia to Japan.
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
OPEC has agreed to cut global oil output by around 10% in response to the coronavirus pandemic, e...
AROUND 6.6m t/y – or 26% – of Europe’s ethylene production capacity is threatened by reduced acti...
EXXONMOBIL is cutting capital spending this year by 30% and operating expenses by 15% in response...
INEOS has extended plans to postpone the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to...
WOODSIDE says it will add a carbon capture project to its Browse gas project off the coast of Wes...
THE UK Government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have relaxed rules over the manufactu...
BP has announced that it will not be cutting any jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
INEOS is postponing the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to shore around 40%...
AUSTRALIA’s Victoria state Government is lifting a ban on conventional onshore gas development an...
INEOS has completed construction of two new hand sanitiser production plants in the UK and German...
Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic
THE UK Government has announced that the children of those working in the healthcare supply chain...
BASF, Fortum and Nornickel are planning a recycling centre in Finland that would recover metals f...
FATALITIES and accidents at work are likely to increase, and a better understanding of engineerin...
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
AN explosion at a small chemicals plant in Barcelona, Spain has killed one and injured 13 others,...
DEREK LISTER has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to nuclear ...
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
A TEAM of students from University of Manchester, UK, has won IChemE’s Macnab-Lacey Prize for the...
UK ENGINEERING consultancy BPE has been bought by On Line Group, an integrated engineering servic...
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
PIPER Alpha survivor Steve Rae will share the story of how his survival has led to a lifelong dri...
ENERGY experts and dedicated volunteers are among 26 chemical engineers being recognised by IChem...
INEOS has signed an agreement to use naphtha derived from wood pulp processing to manufacture bio...
ATKINS has been awarded a five-year contract to provide technical safety and human factors servic...
WORLD Engineering Day for Sustainable Development will be celebrated on 4 March every year as a U...
TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Instit...
DUPONT has bought out OxyMem, a wastewater technology company that was spun out of University Col...
ICHEME Fellow Dominic Foo has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM).
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited milk processing company Synlait for a tour ...
STAKES in state-energy firm Petronas could be sold to Malaysia’s oil-producing states to raise mo...
SPAIN’S oil and gas firm Repsol has outlined plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.
ICHEME Fellow Clifford Jones has been awarded a Distinguished Fellowship by the Royal Australian ...
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
THE UK Government is investing £18m (US$23m) in a partnership with industry led by Rolls Royce to...
UK oil and gas contractors have reported a significant increase in demand for their services from...
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
INTERNATIONAL students at UK universities will now be able to extend their stay up to two years a...
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
THE UK Government has warned in a document it has been forced to disclose that a no-deal Brexit c...
ICHEME has announced there are more than 100 finalists shortlisted for its annual Global Awards.
USING North Sea oil rigs to generate power from methane and bury the resulting emissions would be...
OIL and gas companies have approved US$50bn of investment since 2018 in major projects that under...
CHEVRON’S US$54bn Gorgon LNG project has started operation of one of the world’s largest carbon c...
DUPONT Clean Technologies is licensing its alkylation technology to Shenghong Petrochemical for a...
SAUDI ARAMCO has awarded contracts worth US$18bn to build process plants and expand oil productio...
COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon...
NESTE and LyondellBasell are claiming an industry-first with the parallel, commercial-scale produ...
LINDE is investing US$1.4bn to expand its gasification complex at Jurong Island in Singapore as p...
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has urged regulators to develop safety standards for onshore o...
PETRONAS Chemicals is investigating building a plant to turn plastic waste into virgin feedstock ...
ICHEME Member Irteza Piracha has attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after the company he le...
INEOS is making its first investment in Saudi Arabia, committing to build three new chemicals pla...
THE University of Wolverhampton has had its chemical engineering degree accredited by IChemE.
ACTOR Warwick Davis will host IChemE’s Global Awards on 7 November in Hull, UK.
VOTING Members (Fellows and Chartered Members) of IChemE have approved changes to its Royal Chart...
ENGINEERING contractor WHP has won a contract to help design the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing Inno...
HEIDELBERGCEMENT has set targets to reduce its emissions in line with the Paris Agreement climate...
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
CHEVRON’S agreed merger with Anadarko Petroleum looks under threat after the US independent said ...
OCCIDENTAL has made a hostile bid for Anadarko Petroleum, trumping a US$50bn bid from Chevron.
EXXONMOBIL has made a final investment decision to spend more than US$1bn expanding its Fawley re...
MEMBERS of Parliament speaking at an event to showcase clean energy have noted that in the wake o...
SAUDI ARAMCO is buying Shell’s 50% share of the SASREF joint venture in Jubail Industrial City, S...
CHRYSAOR has agreed to buy ConocoPhillips North Sea assets for US$2.67bn, making it one of the la...
TEPCO has begun work to remove 566 highly-radioactive fuel rod assemblies from reactor building n...
A CARBON-NEGATIVE form of concrete has won an inaugural prize that recognises the potential of us...
CHRIS Higman has been awarded IChemE’s Hebden Medal for his contributions to gasification.
OCCIDENTAL Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub has said she wants the international oil firm to become car...
CHEVRON has agreed to buy Anadarko Petroleum for US$33bn, propelling it into the position of four...
BP has formed a partnership with Virent and Johnson Matthey to commercialise a process that produ...
ICHEME has added 20 new books to Knovel, its free online library for members.
ONE worker has been killed and two seriously injured in a chemicals plant fire in Texas, US.
SAUDI Aramco has agreed to buy a 70% stake in SABIC for US$69.1bn. It is part of national plans t...
THE UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years has been given the go ahead by Cumbria County Council, ...
AFTER three days fighting a fire that was spreading through a chemicals storage depot in Texas, U...
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
EIGHT chemicals storage tanks are ablaze at a major petrochemicals depot on the US Gulf Coast.
DANISH engineering firm Haldor Topsøe is selling a 30% stake in its business to Singapore state i...
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
CHEMICAL engineering postgraduate Jeni Spragg has produced a report to help UK parliamentarians m...
DOWDUPONT is spinning off its safety and sustainability consultancy DuPont Sustainable Solutions ...
ICHEME has announced that Stephen Richardson will be presented to the AGM for election as Deputy ...
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to dev...
EXXONMOBIL is investing in a new polypropylene production unit at its Baton Rouge complex in Loui...
A WAR of words has broken out between the leaders of Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining after the la...
EVONIK is selling its methacrylates business to private equity firm Advent International for €3bn...
INEOS will invest £1bn (US$1.3bn) in the UK, modernising the Forties pipeline system, building a ...
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
THE UK’s Penultimate Power has agreed to form a joint venture with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency...
CHEMICAL engineers have produced ammonia from nitrogen and water using plasma, in a process that ...
TWENTY-SIX chemical engineers have been recognised by the IChemE Medals and Prizes Committee for ...
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract developer and manufacturer, has partnered with the ...
ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations abo...
BP has invested US$5m in artificial intelligence technology in a bid to speed up projects.
SAM Mannan, a safety expert who died last year, will have a prize named in his honour at IChemE’s...
EXXONMOBIL has started building a third crude unit at its Beaumont refinery in Texas, US, in a mo...
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
THE UK’s DRAX power station has begun capturing carbon, and has described the development as the ...
THE Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has sold off a 35% stake in its refining business to I...
BIOMANUFACTURING and the steel sector have each been awarded £10m in funding to help commercialis...
FIVE years on from the publication of his engineering skills review for the UK Government, former...
WOOD and KBR have won a contract to design the facility that will provide backfill gas to Shell’s...
EXXONMOBIL and Qatar Petroleum will invest more than US$10bn in the Golden Pass LNG export projec...
ICHEME, the University of Chester, and major employers in the region are working together to offe...
A TAILINGS dam in Brazil has collapsed, leaving a reported 16 people dead and 297 missing. Other ...
INEOS has selected Antwerp in Belgium as the site for its €3bn (US$3.4bn) investment in the first...
BASF has picked Zhanjiang as the site for its new US$10bn chemicals complex in China.
ICHEME Fellow Alvin Nienow has received the Peter Dunnill Award in recognition of his outstanding...
SIX IChemE members have been recognised for their research excellence by the Academy of Sciences ...
GSK and Pfizer are merging their consumer healthcare businesses in a move that will create a mark...
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydro...
ENGINEERING was the focus of celebration today at a first-of-a-kind national service held at Lond...
BASF has outlined a strategy to outpace average global chemical sales while stagnating emissions.
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$1...
FORMER IChemE Council members Dame Judith Hackitt and Ed Daniels have been awarded honorary degre...
WOOD has won a contract to support Hitachi’s work as architect engineer for the Wylfa Newydd nucl...
LAST night London’s Science Museum unveiled a series of drawings by renowned illustrator Quentin ...
TROUBLED Singapore water treatment firm Hyflux has been rescued by a S$530m (US$384m) investment ...
THE IChemE Centenary Steering Committee, with approval from the Board of Trustees, has invited co...
Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with tr...
THE UK is set to see a 50% rise in biomethane plants operating by 2020, with as much as £400m (US...
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit t...
FRACKING is set to restart in the UK today after a High Court judge dismissed a last-minute legal...
ONE worker has been killed and another seriously injured after a pipe supplying pressurised steam...
INEOS has awarded McDermott a contract for the licence and engineering of a new propane dehydroge...
ELEVEN people have been killed in a fire at a steel plant in Bhilai, India.
AN explosion has shut down Canada’s largest refinery, operated by Irving Oil in Saint Paul, New B...
AKZONOBEL Specialty Chemicals has been renamed Nouryon following its sale to the Carlyle Croup an...
ICHEME has formally announced that it will leave its London premises at One Portland Place this m...
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
GERMANY’S BASF and LetterOne have agreed to merge their oil and gas subsidiaries Wintershall and ...
JENNIFER Spragg, a postgraduate student in bioenergy at the University of Leeds, UK, will advise ...
SHELL has said it will reduce methane leaks by installing new equipment at its operations, as the...
THE chair of IChemE’s Malaysia board, Christina Phang, has met with the country’s new energy mini...
VIVERGO FUELS has said it is looking to close the UK’s largest bioethanol plant by the end of Sep...
GHD has been awarded Silver Corporate Partner status by IChemE.
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the He...
EXXONMOBIL is considering building a multi-billion-dollar chemicals complex in China’s Guangdong ...
NORWAY could become the first country to directly connect an offshore wind farm to oil and gas pl...
THE UK Chancellor has warned that the chemicals sector will be one of the hardest hit by a ‘no de...
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
ONE man has been killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at a military hardware plan...
JOHNSON MATTHEY is building a demonstration- plant for production of next-generation lithium ion ...
A MERGER to create the world’s largest industrial gases firm is in doubt after anti-trust authori...
ARKEMA, its CEO and the manager of the plant in Texas that caught fire after Hurricane Harvey bat...
ICHEME has successfully lobbied the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to waive the £70 (US$91) cost...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has said that a deteriorated valve may have caused the explosi...
VITOL and Peabody Energy have invested US$20m in a firm that has developed technology that it say...
LINDE has agreed to sell its industrial gas businesses in North and South America for US$3.3bn as...
AFRICA’S richest man, Aliko Dangote, has agreed a US$650m loan to build the world’s largest singl...
TWELVE people have been injured in an explosion at a chemicals storage site in Egypt.
AN explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant has killed 19 people and injured 12 others.
ABB has warned that unless the leaders of chemical companies embrace the Industrial Internet of T...
BASF is considering building a new highly-integrated – or ‘Verbund’ – chemicals site in Guangdong...
THE head of Sinochem will also take over at ChemChina in a move expected to signal the long-rumou...
INEOS will invest €2.7bn (US$3.1bn) to build a new ethane cracker and propane dehydrogenation uni...
AN EXPLOSION at a chemicals plant in Japan on 2 July has killed one worker and injured at least a...
THE UK government has unveiled a £200m (US$262m) deal in partnership with the nuclear industry th...
SIEMENS will launch a demonstration project in the UK today to showcase the potential of using ‘g...
MIT chemical engineer Michael Strano has helped develop a treatment for wetsuits that protects di...
HSE has teamed up with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation to develop new techniques aimed at sifting...
BEER, fizzy drinks, and poultry supplies are at risk of disruption in the UK following a shortage...
AN ARMED assault has caused catastrophic damage to two oil storage tanks at the Ras Lanuf termina...
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham H...
PHIL KIRK, CEO of Chrysaor, has issued challenges to the oil industry community at a UK conferenc...
THE oil and gas community has been urged to “maintain a chronic sense of unease” at a conference ...
MEMBERS have voted in support of a package of reforms that will modernise IChemE’s governance and...
SEVEN chemical engineers have been awarded medals for their outstanding contributions to process ...
A SHORTAGE of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills is costing UK businesses £...
A CHEMICAL engineer from the University of Queensland has created a new type of micro distillery ...
NORWAY’S efforts to develop a full-chain CCS demonstration project have been boosted by governmen...
IN a bid to diversify its economy away from oil production, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (A...
PHILIP ALDRIDGE, an IChemE member who has taken over as CEO of England’s Northeast Process Indust...
TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL has agreed to buy Shire for £46bn (US$62bn) as it seeks to create a global ...
A CHEMICAL plant in Louisiana, US, has caught fire, with no injuries reported.
CHEMICAL engineer Lynn Gladden will be the next executive chair of the Engineering and Physical S...
KBR has been named the second project management contractor for the design of Saudi Aramco and SA...
MARATHON PETROLEUM has agreed to buy Andeavor in a US$36bn deal that will create the largest US r...
ICHEME has added two new categories to its Global Awards programme: the Pharma Award and the Dive...
HSE has warned the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators that they must do more to tackle hydrocarb...
BAYER has agreed to sell its entire vegetable seeds business to BASF for €1.7bn (US$2bn), as it s...
AN explosion at a Husky Energy-owned oil refinery in the US has reportedly injured at least 15 pe...
MORE than 200 engineers gathered in Manchester, UK, earlier this month to celebrate excellence in...
SHIRE has opened the door to a £46bn (US$64bn) takeover bid from Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical.
PROCTER & GAMBLE has agreed to buy German drugmaker Merck’s consumer healthcare unit for €3.4bn (...
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
AN explosion and fire has hit Valero Energy’s 225,000 bbl/d Texas City refinery, with no injuries...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris has donated A$13.5m to his alma matar the University of Queensla...
THE release of an edition of Monopoly that marks the anniversary of the tragic Piper Alpha oil pl...
MOTIVA ENTERPRISES has signed MoUs with UOP and TechnipFMC worth as much as US$10bn to explore us...
UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s larges...
A RANGE of new titles, including recently updated editions of Coulson & Richardson’s Chemical Eng...
KEY employers of chemical engineers in the UK have published their gender pay gap information but...
HARBOUR ENERGY has made a A$13.5bn (US$10.4bn) bid for Australian oil and gas producer Santos.
JAPAN’S Takeda Pharmaceutical has revealed it is considering a bid for Ireland’s Shire as it seek...
NESTLÉ has announced it is launching its first product containing a new form of natural sugar tha...
SAUDI ARAMCO has agreed a deal to take joint ownership of Petronas’ refinery currently under cons...
AKZONOBEL is selling its specialty chemicals business to The Carlyle Group and Singapore’s sovere...
SAUDI ARABIA and Japan’s Softbank have agreed to build the world’s largest solar power project, w...
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
GSK will pay US$13bn to take full control of its consumer healthcare venture with Novartis.
TWO chemical engineers - Jinghai Li and Raghunath Anant Mashelkar – have joined the judging panel...
AKZONOBEL has joined a partnership in Sweden that seeks to use excess renewable power to produce ...
THE CEO and former-president of Theranos – a company which claimed to have developed technology t...
TWO workers have been injured and one remains missing following an explosion at a chemicals plant...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris will step down in April as executive chair of DowDuPont, the hol...
FUSION power – the clean energy technology wryly said to always be 30 years from reality – could ...
AT least three people are dead after an explosion in a chemical factory in the Maharashtra Indust...
ICHEME has backed calls for the UK to remain within the EU’s chemicals regulation (REACH) despite...
BAYER is in talks to sell its entire vegetable seeds business to BASF as it seeks to address anti...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
SHELL has released photos showing its progress building the world’s largest alpha olefins product...
ICHEME has announced the six members of a new committee that has been formed to ensure that trust...
ICHEME Fellow Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee Wan Arrifin has had his contract as CEO of Petronas extended ...
DNV GL has set up an R&D centre in Singapore to accelerate the use of 3D-printed technology by th...
CB&I has been awarded a contract for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the world’s l...
INEOS has restarted the UK’s Forties Pipeline after the closure of a valve forced a shutdown of t...
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
EMERSON will install industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies at Covestro production pla...
AUSTRALIA’S government has been urged to act now if it wants domestic industry to push downstream...
THE University of Edinburgh has launched the world’s first open online course about CCS and is of...
CHEMICAL engineers Russell Scott and David Wood have been awarded Member in the General Division ...
AN explosion at an oil refinery in Taiwan set off a fire yesterday that took hours to extinguish.
GENOMATICA is working with nylon-maker Aquafil to produce one of its key feedstocks – caprolactam...
SABIC has become the largest shareholder in specialty chemicals company Clariant. The Saudi chemi...
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
EVONIK and Siemens are working together on a process to produce specialty chemicals from carbon d...
SHALE gas is one of the least sustainable options for producing electricity, according to a new s...
SHELL will redevelop the Penguins oil and gas field 240 km northeast of the Shetland Islands, a p...
THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) has signed an agreement to become the world’s first whol...
CHEMICAL engineer Timothy Noël has been awarded the 2017 DECHEMA Prize for his pioneering work on...
AN oil tanker that had been ablaze since it collided with a freight ship in the East China Sea on...
ICHEME’s membership has delivered a strong vote of confidence in the current leadership at an ext...
A NEW method has been developed to help drug developers weed out compounds that could potentially...
AN oil tanker is on fire and at risk of exploding after colliding with a freight ship off the eas...
THE UK’s largest bioethanol producer has halted production at its plant in East Yorkshire, blamin...
EMERSON ELECTRIC has abandoned its pursuit of Rockwell Automation following a forceful rejection ...
SAUDI ARAMCO and SABIC have agreed to develop plans for the world’s largest crude oil-to-chemical...
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a third takeover offer from Emerson Electric, arguing that the d...
ELON MUSK looks set to win the bet he made with South Australia, after the state’s premier announ...
EMERSON ELECTRIC has increased its offer for Rockwell Automation to US$29bn.
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a detailed animation of the events leading to the...
SAUDI ARAMCO has signed eight agreements, worth around US$4.5bn, with oil and gas service contrac...
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a takeover offer worth around US$28bn from Emerson Electric.
ICHEME SINGAPORE has joined a unique alliance with the country’s government and industrial trade ...
AKZONOBEL has confirmed it is in talks about merging its paints and coating business with Axalta ...
ENGIE Fabricom has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for ...
CLARIANT and Huntsman have cancelled their proposed US$20bn merger following pressure from activi...
SINGAPORE has put innovation and building skills at the heart of a new strategy to boost its ener...
THE UK government has outlined a raft of plans for low-carbon investment, setting out how £2.5bn ...
RAKESH AGRAWAL, chemical engineering professor at Purdue University, speaks on camera to The Chem...
A CEREMONY has been held in Spain to celebrate the top reviewers of IChemE’s journals.
THE European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has today announced the winners of a serie...
CGN is bidding for a stake in the UK’s planned Moorside nuclear plant following the financial tro...
SOLVAY is selling its integrated polyamides business to BASF for €1.6bn (US$1.92bn) as it continu...
THE WORLD’S oldest nuclear store – containing waste untouched since the dawn of the UK’s atomic w...
All nine chemical containers have ignited at the flooded Arkema plant in Crosby, outside Houston,...
THE UK’S CBI has established a new CEO-level Manufacturing Council to ensure that the voices of c...
CHEMICAL engineer Zoey Clark won a silver medal for Britain in the women’s 4x400 m relay at the I...
TATA STEEL has been fined £1m (US$1.3m) after five employees were exposed to a toxic gas release ...
PETRONAS has released photos showing the installation of a record-breaking crude distillation col...
INDUSTRY in the Northwest of England should pioneer the use of hydrogen fuel, according to an amb...
ICHEME Member Aaron Low has won the 2017 Earle Travel Fellowship. The award encourages New Zealan...
PETROFAC is conducting a safety study that could recommend that the upstream oil and gas industry...
AMEC FOSTER WHEELER has been awarded a FEED contract to help upgrade Total’s Donges refinery in F...
A SURGE in the construction of facilities that burn residual waste is a direct threat to the UK a...
A 100-YEAR law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks has been overturned by engineers at...
SEEKING to raise awareness of the promise of hydrogen fuel, a converted racing boat equipped to p...
PROCESS SYSTEMS ENTERPRISE (PSE) is the first process engineering software company to become an I...
EVONIK has earmarked €100m (US$114m) for investment in digitalisation by 2020 and formed strategi...
SOUTH AUSTRALIA has called Elon Musk on a bet he made in March, and has challenged the billionair...
PROCESS developers are celebrating a roadtrip fuelled by whisky waste.
LITHIUM could hold the key to improving the confinement of plasma in fusion reactors, and ensurin...
A BIOFOULING study that has examined colonies of bacteria on membranes suggests desalination plan...
EVONIK and the SINOPEC Beijing Research Institute of the Chemical Industry (BRICI) have agreed to...
IN a blow to clean coal development, the Kemper County power plant in the US has been forced to a...
RADIATION monitoring systems at the Chernobyl nuclear plant have been put out of action by a rans...
GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (GTI) in the US will be partnering with China’s Yangquan Coal Industry G...
FRANCE plans to pass a law later this year to stop granting licences for oil and gas exploration ...
RIO TINTO has snubbed a second Glencore bid for its Australian coal assets, choosing Chinese mine...
CIGARETTES giant Philip Morris (PMI) has unveiled plans to build a US$320m facility to produce sm...
GREEN chemicals are a focus of a new £200m (US$253m) investment announced by the UK’s University ...
EXXONMOBIL is among a number of industry giants that have backed plans for a US carbon tax design...
RIO TINTO has snubbed an offer from Glencore for its thermal coal assets in Australia, sticking i...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
CELANESE is forming a joint venture with Blackstone to create a global acetate tow supplier – as ...
AMEC FOSTER WHEELER has won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for one ...
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint...
MORE than 100 specially-invited guests gathered at the UK’s Houses of Parliament in December to s...
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